Parliamentary page sacrifices her job for anti-Harper protest
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Okay, gentlemen, just as a hypothetical statement.
http://tunes.digitalock.com/gimmesympathyacoustic.mp3 <-- tune I am listening to while typing this... click to play
What if someone calls a social-paranoia war and nobody comes to fight?
The rules are if you touch anyone underage the wrong way you're at least going to get your teeth knocked out. They have not yet felt the hormones, so they don't know what you're doing, so it's like f-cking a hamster or a chicken, except in this case you're meddling with the next generation.
The world gets better or worse based upon teaching.
In any case, I have done business with Americans, and they can be brought down with a simple thing, whereupon they get stumped.
How do I explain this... no blackmail. Way to do biz with Americans is use the border to prove you're not going to eat their blackmail, and tell them at the border if you don't like their moral principal it's so boring to a nation self-sufficient in resources like this that they are going to have to make a treaty with Rome to get forgiveness and spend a trillion dollars on cheep social advertizing at the rate of pennies on the dollar for Canada to rise up and continue to be America's greatest friend. I didn't say ally. You think England is that. I said friend. Maybe brother, but don't tell the twisted Capitalists, or we'll get Harpies coming in.
http://tunes.digitalock.com/gimmesympathyacoustic.mp3 <-- tune I am listening to while typing this... click to play
What if someone calls a social-paranoia war and nobody comes to fight?
The rules are if you touch anyone underage the wrong way you're at least going to get your teeth knocked out. They have not yet felt the hormones, so they don't know what you're doing, so it's like f-cking a hamster or a chicken, except in this case you're meddling with the next generation.
The world gets better or worse based upon teaching.
In any case, I have done business with Americans, and they can be brought down with a simple thing, whereupon they get stumped.
How do I explain this... no blackmail. Way to do biz with Americans is use the border to prove you're not going to eat their blackmail, and tell them at the border if you don't like their moral principal it's so boring to a nation self-sufficient in resources like this that they are going to have to make a treaty with Rome to get forgiveness and spend a trillion dollars on cheep social advertizing at the rate of pennies on the dollar for Canada to rise up and continue to be America's greatest friend. I didn't say ally. You think England is that. I said friend. Maybe brother, but don't tell the twisted Capitalists, or we'll get Harpies coming in.
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You've lost me on what this has to do with the subject of the thread??????????????????????
The only way to truly piss me off is to not teach kids.
Did you think we were born with knowledge?
http://tunes.digitalock.com/Augusts_Rhapsody.mp3 <-- tune I am listening to now. Click to hear.
Did you ever notice that a key survival aspect of being human is that as kids we knew nothing but could learn anything, enough to blow the socks off angles, enough to impress the Heavenly father, enough to make the angels jealous, enough for to do (bwa ha ha ha) save an angel, such that it's not it protecting you, rather you protecting it enough for it to live forever too, and that's when you have an angel protector?
I apologies. I drifted.
Did you think we were born with knowledge?
http://tunes.digitalock.com/Augusts_Rhapsody.mp3 <-- tune I am listening to now. Click to hear.
Did you ever notice that a key survival aspect of being human is that as kids we knew nothing but could learn anything, enough to blow the socks off angles, enough to impress the Heavenly father, enough to make the angels jealous, enough for to do (bwa ha ha ha) save an angel, such that it's not it protecting you, rather you protecting it enough for it to live forever too, and that's when you have an angel protector?
I apologies. I drifted.
As the old Quaker said to his wife, "Everyone in this world is a little queer, except for me and thee my dear and sometimes I have my doubts about thee" :smile:
How the hell would you know what it is or isn't? You were told to ignore me and that is what you should stick with troll.
Can I ask, why are you always listening to that song?
YouTube - Red Hot Chili Peppers- Wet Sand <--- tune I am listening to now. Click to hear.
Just what I said in the rest of my post. A lot of people nowadays don't mind their own business when they should. :smile:
Why I did it: Senate page explains her throne speech protest
I am moved by the excitement and energy with which people from all walks of life across this country greeted my action in the Senate.
One person alone cannot accomplish much, but they must at least do what they can. So I held out my “Stop Harper” sign during the throne speech because I felt I had a responsibility to use my position to oppose a government whose values go against the majority of Canadians.
The thousands of positive comments shared online, the printing of “Stop Harper” buttons and stickers and lawn signs, and the many calls for further action convinced me that this is not merely a country of people dissatisfied with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s vision for Canada.
It is a country of people burning with desire for change.
If I was able to do what I did, I know that there are thousands of others capable of equal, or far more courageous, acts.
I think those who reacted with excitement realize that politics should not be left to the politicians, and that democracy is not just about marking a ballot every few years. It is about ensuring, with daily engagement and resistance, that the vision we have for our society is reflected in the decision-making of our government.
Our views are not represented by our political system. How else could we have a government that 60 per cent of the people voted against? A broken system is what has left us with a Conservative government ready to spend billions on fighter jets we don’t need, to pollute the environment we want protected, to degrade a health-care system we want improved, and to cut social programs and public sector jobs we value. As a page, I witnessed one irresponsible bill after another pass through the Senate, and wanted to scream “Stop.”
Such a system leads us to feel isolated, powerless and hopeless — thousands of Canadians made that clear in their responses to my action. We need a reminder that there are alternatives. We need a reminder that we have both the capacity to create change, and an obligation to. If my action has been that reminder, it was a success.
Media and politicians have argued that I tarnished the throne speech, a solemn Canadian tradition. I now believe more in another tradition — the tradition of ordinary people in this country fighting to create a more just and sustainable world, using peaceful direct action and civil disobedience.
On occasion, that tradition has found an inspiring home within Parliament: In 1970, for instance, a group of young women chained themselves to the parliamentary gallery seats to protest the Canadian law that criminalized abortion. Their action won national attention, and helped propel a movement that eventually achieved abortion’s legalization.
Was such an action “appropriate”? Not in the conventional sense. But those women were driven by insights known to every social movement in history: that the ending of injustices or the winning of human rights are never gifts from rulers or from parliaments, but the fruit of struggle and of people power in the streets.
Actions like these provide the answer to the Harper government. When Harper tries to push through policies and legislation that hurt our communities and country, we all need to find our inner activist, and flow into the streets. And what is a stop sign after all, but a nod to the symbol of the street where a people amassed can put the brakes on the Harper government?
I’ve been inspired by Canadians taking action, and inspired too by my peers rising up in North Africa and the Middle East. I am honoured to have since received a message from young activists there, saying that we need not just an Arab spring but a “world spring,” using people power to combat whatever ills exists in each country.
I have been inspired most of all by Asmaa Mahfouz, the 26-year-old woman who issued a video calling for Egyptians to join her in Tahrir Square. People did, and they together made the Egyptian revolution. Her words will always stay with me: “As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go and take a stand, then there will be hope.”
Brigette DePape is a recent graduate of the University of Ottawa. She has started a fund to support peaceful direct action and civil disobedience against the Harper agenda: www.stopharperfund.ca
Why I did it: Senate page explains her throne speech protest - thestar.com
I am moved by the excitement and energy with which people from all walks of life across this country greeted my action in the Senate.
One person alone cannot accomplish much, but they must at least do what they can. So I held out my “Stop Harper” sign during the throne speech because I felt I had a responsibility to use my position to oppose a government whose values go against the majority of Canadians.
The thousands of positive comments shared online, the printing of “Stop Harper” buttons and stickers and lawn signs, and the many calls for further action convinced me that this is not merely a country of people dissatisfied with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s vision for Canada.
It is a country of people burning with desire for change.
If I was able to do what I did, I know that there are thousands of others capable of equal, or far more courageous, acts.
I think those who reacted with excitement realize that politics should not be left to the politicians, and that democracy is not just about marking a ballot every few years. It is about ensuring, with daily engagement and resistance, that the vision we have for our society is reflected in the decision-making of our government.
Our views are not represented by our political system. How else could we have a government that 60 per cent of the people voted against? A broken system is what has left us with a Conservative government ready to spend billions on fighter jets we don’t need, to pollute the environment we want protected, to degrade a health-care system we want improved, and to cut social programs and public sector jobs we value. As a page, I witnessed one irresponsible bill after another pass through the Senate, and wanted to scream “Stop.”
Such a system leads us to feel isolated, powerless and hopeless — thousands of Canadians made that clear in their responses to my action. We need a reminder that there are alternatives. We need a reminder that we have both the capacity to create change, and an obligation to. If my action has been that reminder, it was a success.
Media and politicians have argued that I tarnished the throne speech, a solemn Canadian tradition. I now believe more in another tradition — the tradition of ordinary people in this country fighting to create a more just and sustainable world, using peaceful direct action and civil disobedience.
On occasion, that tradition has found an inspiring home within Parliament: In 1970, for instance, a group of young women chained themselves to the parliamentary gallery seats to protest the Canadian law that criminalized abortion. Their action won national attention, and helped propel a movement that eventually achieved abortion’s legalization.
Was such an action “appropriate”? Not in the conventional sense. But those women were driven by insights known to every social movement in history: that the ending of injustices or the winning of human rights are never gifts from rulers or from parliaments, but the fruit of struggle and of people power in the streets.
Actions like these provide the answer to the Harper government. When Harper tries to push through policies and legislation that hurt our communities and country, we all need to find our inner activist, and flow into the streets. And what is a stop sign after all, but a nod to the symbol of the street where a people amassed can put the brakes on the Harper government?
I’ve been inspired by Canadians taking action, and inspired too by my peers rising up in North Africa and the Middle East. I am honoured to have since received a message from young activists there, saying that we need not just an Arab spring but a “world spring,” using people power to combat whatever ills exists in each country.
I have been inspired most of all by Asmaa Mahfouz, the 26-year-old woman who issued a video calling for Egyptians to join her in Tahrir Square. People did, and they together made the Egyptian revolution. Her words will always stay with me: “As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go and take a stand, then there will be hope.”
Brigette DePape is a recent graduate of the University of Ottawa. She has started a fund to support peaceful direct action and civil disobedience against the Harper agenda: www.stopharperfund.ca
Why I did it: Senate page explains her throne speech protest - thestar.com
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She presumes that the government has values that goes against the majority of Canadians?
Well she's using the vote as a metric and referencing the four hotbutton issues: jets, environment, healthcare, social programs. I'm sure there's some crossover on some of those between the liberals and conservatives.
Also, by "government" I'm assuming she's just referring to the one and only, Harper government.
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This paragraph from her really puts me off:
"’ve been inspired by Canadians taking action, and inspired too by my peers rising up in North Africa and the Middle East. I am honoured to have since received a message from young activists there, saying that we need not just an Arab spring but a “world spring,” using people power to combat whatever ills exists in each country."
The fact that she thinks the political scene in Canada in any way resembles what's happening in the middle east shows just how delusional she is.
Also, the fact that she she thinks she is speaking for Canadian's is hilarious, she has serious delusions of grandeur.
"’ve been inspired by Canadians taking action, and inspired too by my peers rising up in North Africa and the Middle East. I am honoured to have since received a message from young activists there, saying that we need not just an Arab spring but a “world spring,” using people power to combat whatever ills exists in each country."
The fact that she thinks the political scene in Canada in any way resembles what's happening in the middle east shows just how delusional she is.
Also, the fact that she she thinks she is speaking for Canadian's is hilarious, she has serious delusions of grandeur.
Well yes, that's the rhetoric part of it, lol
(I can tell Colpy's typing furiously right now)